Windows: "not responding"

[Tom Glod]

nope. doesn't seem to have any effect.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 4:12 PM, Tom Glod <tom at makeshyft.com> wrote:

> if i had a penny for every time this has come up....
>
> i do not enjoy having to slow down my handlers by adding a wait with
> messages command ..... its a noticeable drop in data processing
> performance.  this HAS to be addressed at the level of the engine.  The OS
> is supposed to schedule CPU cycles to different processes .... and for some
> reason the engine is asking for top priority.
>
> has anyone ever tried lowering the priority level in the task manager ? to
> see if that has an effect on this problem?.... i might go test that out the
> next time i'm in lc.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> I think they did. As I recall, the upshot was that this is a Windows
>> thing, and Livecode is not the only victim. In fact, we use a product by
>> Prism called DocRecord, and it will exhibit similar behavior when running
>> on a slower PC with less than optimal resources.
>>
>> I'm thinking maybe this would be a good task to hand off to some kind of
>> agent app. It's easy to do with sockets, passing information back and
>> forth. I wrote a Spinner app and compiled it, which would receive
>> Applescript commands to show/hide itself, display a progress indicator, and
>> display a status message. Since it was compiled as it's own app, it ran in
>> it's own thread, so leaving my main app to go about it's business while it
>> was doing it's thing.
>>
>> For my purposes it was only a progress dialog because an animated gif
>> will only update while Livecode is idle, which it never is when I need a
>> progress indicator.
>>
>> Bob S
>>
>>
>> > On Aug 14, 2018, at 12:32 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > It would be nice if some LiveCode, Ltd expert could at least look into
>> > this and let people know if they can do anything in their apps to avoid
>> > this rather than leave us to try different thing hoping something we
>> > stumble upon may work.
>>
>>
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